One of the candidates for the mid-term village board election was seriously injured yesterday.

He was loading 1,500 pound round bales of hay, and one rolled off his truck and over him. His four-year-old son had to go to the next farm over and explain what had happened … that farmer got the four-year-old to take him back to his father.

He is now in hospital in Denver after being flown out; he is immobilised with a broken lower back and broken ribs and shoulders.